Ghrelin administration into tegmental areas stimulates locomotor activity and increases extracellular concentration of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens

Addiction Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-16

  Jerlhag, Elisabet ^a   Egecioglu, Emil ^b   Dickson, Suzanne L ^b   Douhan, Annika ^a   Svensson, Lennart ^a   Engel, Jörgen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Addiction; Dopamine; Ghrelin; Laterodorsal tegmental area; Reward systems; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GHRELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFECT; ENERGY BALANCE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TEGMENTUM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PEPTIDE HORMONES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REWARD; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 33947139281     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2006.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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